When people find out that, in 2021, I very nearly died from Delta-COVID pneumonia — surviving only because of the care I received over 13 days in a hospital COVID ward — they always ask if I had received the COVID vaccine. When I tell them no, they invariably ask if I regret not getting vaccinated.
My answer is an emphatic “NO” — I don’t regret it at all. Never have. And because of what we’re learning about the dangerous side-effects of the COVID vaccine, I never will.
I have been evaluated by a pulmonologist who tells me I have no residual effect from COVID in my lungs. He says I’m completely recovered . Nor have I had so much as even a cold since them. I appear to be a living example of ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!’
Mrs. Beatty (an RN, BSN), likewise nearly died of COVID pneumonia. We were both hospitalized at the same time. She does not have any regrets whatsoever about not being vaccinated either.
Why, you ask? Well, compare our unvaccinated experience, recovering from COVID, with those who were vaccinated and have suffered long-term debilitating side effects.
The New York Times — which touted vaccination at the time — now reports there is evidence of far more serious side effects of the vaccine than previously reported.
For example:
Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.
She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.
A woman with a PhD in neuroscience says her life has been effectively ruined by the COVID vaccine. It seems she would be taken seriously. But apparently not.
Dr. Janet Woodcock, a longtime leader of the Food and Drug Administration, who retired in February, said she believed that some recipients had experienced uncommon but “serious” and “life-changing” reactions beyond those described by federal agencies.
“I feel bad for those people,” said Dr. Woodcock, who became the F.D.A.’s acting commissioner in January 2021 as the vaccines were rolling out. “I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously.”
Michelle Zimmerman is not alone among health care professionals who believe receiving the COVID vaccine had serious side effects they weren’t warned about.
Shaun Barcavage, 54, a nurse practitioner in New York City who has worked on clinical trials for H.I.V. and Covid, said that ever since his first Covid shot, merely standing up sent his heart racing — a symptom suggestive of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a neurological disorder that some studies have linked to both Covid and, much less often, vaccination.
He also experienced stinging pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals, which has abated, and tinnitus, which has not.
The same government that used threats of withholding federal funding to coerce private health-care providers to require vaccination of their employees, is now apparently ignoring pleas for help from health care workers suffering from vaccine side-effects.
“I can’t get the government to help me,” Mr. Barcavage said of his fruitless pleas to federal agencies and elected representatives. “I am told I’m not real. I’m told I’m rare. I’m told I’m coincidence.”
In fact, it appears the government does not even want to hear about adverse side effects — even when reported by health care professionals.
Renee France, 49, a physical therapist in Seattle, developed Bell’s palsy — a form of facial paralysis, usually temporary — and a dramatic rash that neatly bisected her face. Bell’s palsy is a known side effect of other vaccines, and it has been linked to Covid vaccination in some studies.
But Dr. France said doctors were dismissive of any connection to the Covid vaccines. The rash, a bout of shingles, debilitated her for three weeks, so Dr. France reported it to federal databases twice. “I thought for sure someone would reach out, but no one ever did,” she said.
When a neuroscientist, a nurse practitioner, and a physical therapist report they suffered severe immediate, and long-term, effects following vaccination a rational person would assume they know of what they speak.
But since we are talking about the government, ‘rational’ doesn’t come in to play. Especially if that government was complicit in causing the problem.
I wrote here before about the government’s duplicity in approving the COVID vaccine (that by clinical definition never was actually a ‘vaccine’)… and how the government colluded in suppressing information about vaccine adverse effects, in which I quoted an excerpt from a article written by two esteemed physicians:
“The large clustering of certain adverse events immediately after vaccination is concerning, and the silence around these potential signals of harm reflects the politics surrounding COVID-19 vaccines.”
Those who most strenuously advocated vaccination, particularly those who attempted to shame and ostracize the un-vaccinated, will now tell you doing so “saved countless lives”. There is just one problem with that post hoc justification — they can’t prove it.
That lives were supposedly saved is pure speculation. There is no scientific data to support it.
From back when COVID was sweeping through the population and I declined vaccination, right up to now, whenever asked why I refused my answer is the same. My every instinct, based on life experience with government, and my medical training, told me the COVID vaccine was a dangerous experiment using us as beta-test subjects.
The New York Times article documents just a few examples of how that testing was harmful, and how the government refuses to acknowledge that it was wrong.
I wonder how many of those who criticized, shamed and ostracized others who didn’t get vaccinated will now admit they were wrong? Probably none. Here is what I wrote about them back in the fall of 2021:
I don’t participate in any social media. I’m only indirectly aware of what goes on in that playpen. I’ve been shown comments saying anyone not vaccinated deserves to get COVID. That unvaccinated people should be denied hospital COVID treatment to make room for vaccinated people who need it. (Wait… What? You mean vaccination doesn’t keep you from getting COVID?)
Some even said the unvaccinated deserved to die from COVID. From what dark pit of the soul and emotional emptiness does that level of hatred germinate?
It may be no more complicated than a pathological obsession with COVID filling an emotional void. Experience, though, cautions me that it’s likely far more sinister. History teaches where that can lead.
To some, my life already has no value because I have a different viewpoint about COVID than theirs. Why else would they believe I deserve to die because I’m not vaccinated? That sounds like, to them, this pandemic is a convenient short-cut to the gas chambers…
Gary Beatty lives between Florida and Pagosa Springs. He retired after 30 years as a prosecutor for the State of Florida, has a doctorate in law, is Board Certified in Criminal Trial law by the Florida Supreme Court, and is now a law professor.